{"id":2437,"date":"2008-10-08T15:10:09","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T07:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/others\/2008\/10\/08\/banning-hindraf\/"},"modified":"2008-10-08T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T07:10:09","slug":"banning-hindraf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/10\/08\/banning-hindraf\/","title":{"rendered":"Banning HINDRAF"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can you ban an organisation<\/a> that is not registered? Obviously you can punish those who wear its emblems or symbols (quite hard to ban orange color clothing!). You can also arrest those known to be its leaders or spokesmen. Freeze the accounts of the key people. Shut down its websites. Probably stop gatherings, prayers, talks and functions held by the group. In the case of HINDRAF, it would mean that about 30 people will be arrested – including its various coordinators and Waytha’s wife. <\/p>\n

What about “makkal sakthi”? Should the word be banned as well? Cars having “makkal sakthi” stickers stopped and driver fined? T-shirt wearers arrested?<\/p>\n

This may force situation back to status quo – unhappy community that is unable to express itself. This unhappy will only burst again the next time, when another group of people rise to lead the community. So, ban HINDRAF. Later there will be HINDRAF 2. Ban that. After sometime, HINDRAF 3 and so on.<\/p>\n

The Home Ministry may end up needing to build large depot to house everyone it arrests. I know many HINDRAF sympathizers (a gentler word compared to supporters or members) compared to anti-HINDRAF Indians. I guess the ratio is like 65-35 among my circle of contacts. Then, you have to consider those who symphatizers who are non-Indians. Would you arrest anyone who speaks in favor of HINDRAF? That would be a very long list indeed – PAS leader, opposition MPs, JIBA president, Samy Vellu, MHS president, Gerakan chief, bloggers, NGOs, Bar Council people, lawyers, wah…very long list.<\/p>\n

Secretary-general Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said as Hindraf was not a registered organisation, the ministry’s legal unit would look at the technicality of disbanding the group.<\/p>\n

He said Hindraf had on many occasions created unrest within the community, citing the recent gate-crashing of the prime minister and cabinet’s Hari Raya open house as an example. <\/p>\n

Abdul Aziz said Hindraf’s insolence could not be tolerated as it had angered many, especially Muslims who felt Hindraf had marred the spirit of the Hari Raya.<\/p>\n

He also said the police were looking into who were behind the incident. Speaking to the New Straits Times from Singapore, Abdul Aziz was also bemused at reports that Hindraf had lodged a police report against Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar and Malay daily Utusan Malaysia, for allegedly hurting the feelings of Hindraf members in a news report. He said if the report had been made under Hindraf’s name, it would be ridiculous as the group was not even a formal entity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How can you ban an organisation that is not registered? Obviously you can punish those who wear its emblems or symbols (quite hard to ban orange color clothing!). You can also arrest those known to be its leaders or spokesmen. Freeze the accounts of the key people. Shut down its websites. Probably stop gatherings, prayers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}